Listen to a recent webinar from the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative on improving permanency outcomes for older youth. Register for the final webinar in our six-part series, Leveraging the Strengthening Families Act, taking place September 29, 2016.
South Carolina is leading an ambitious statewide effort to bolster and expand family support services — aiming to reduce reliance on the child protection system. Learn about the new approach.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation recently cohosted a webinar series — "The Unlearning of Child Welfare: A National Conversation to Advance Child and Family Well-Being" — to foster discussion about what is needed to rebuild the child welfare system.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation partners with NYC’s Administration for Children’s Services to launch a pilot program that pairs parents navigating the foster care system with parent advocates who know what it’s like.
Read about how the Annie E. Casey Foundation is working to support interventions that reduce congregate care from its current level of 16% of all foster care placements nationally to about 5 to 10% in the next five years and to move those children as quickly as possible toward lifelong family connections and permanent homes.
A new report calls on child welfare systems to stop placing kids in group settings. It also shares evidence-based policy recommendations that promote family-based alternatives.
As part of the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, social service agencies across the nation can expect to see reductions in funding. Watch a webinar that lays out a plan for how child welfare agencies can manage the fiscal implications of the pandemic.
A new effort, Thriving Families, Safer Children, aims to move from traditional, reactive child protection systems to those designed to support child and family well-being and prevent child maltreatment and unnecessary family separations. Read the news release.
Written for child welfare agencies nationwide, a new Casey Foundation fact sheet explores how kinship care can support children and how agencies can support kin families during the coronavirus pandemic.
In a webinar, experts describes how child welfare leaders can use a new resource to develop a fiscal analysis of prevention services provided under the federal Family First Prevention Services Actand shares the experience of a state leader. Watch the webinar.
